hempy
\ HEM-pee \, adjective;
1.Scot . mischievous; often in trouble for mischief.
Quotes:
...and that there could not be a surer proof of the young hempy being his get, than that he had been a thief...
-- John Galt, "The Stolen Child ," 1833
"Recollect ye!" he said; "by my troth do I.—Haud him a grip, gentlemen! —constables, keep him fast! Where that ill-deedy hempy is, ye are sure that Alan Fairford is not far off."
-- Sir Walter Scott," Redgauntlet ," 1824
Origin:
Hempy comes from the late Middle English word hempi , which meant "made of hemp." This is thought to be a dark joke about one being fit for hanging by a hemp rope, and, by attenuation, mischievous.
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